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19. εἷς. To be taken in connection with ἕτερος δέ, the first in the enumeration.
γραμματεύς. The accession of a Scribe to the cause of Christ must have appeared to the people as a great success. Language of the most extravagant adulation is used to express the dignity and influence of the Scribes. Yet Jesus discourages him. No secondary motives are named, but the Scribe may have expected a high position in the kingdom of a temporal Messiah. We are not told whether, thus brought face to face with privation and hardship, he was daunted like the young ruler (ch. Mat 19:16), or persevered like the sons of Zebedee (ch. Mat 20:22).